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  Moscow (Sputnik) Oct 03, 2019 Virgin Galactic is a subsidiary of the Virgin Group, which is involved in developing commercial spacecraft and eventually providing trips to space tourists and missions for scientific research. On Wednesday, Virgin Galactic signed an agreement with the Italian Air Force which would include putting humans on board its suborbital spacecraft VSS Unity and conducting research. The signing marks the first time in history that any government has purchased involvement in a private space mission to ... read more |
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Space Launch System mock up arrives at Kennedy for testingKennedy Space Center FL (SPX) Oct 03, 2019 NASA's Pegasus Barge arrived at the Launch Complex 39 turn basin wharf at Kennedy Space Center in Florida to make its first delivery to Kennedy in support of the agency's Artemis missions. The ... more  
First Arab on ISS set for Earth returnAlmaty, Kazakhstan (AFP) Oct 3, 2019 An Emirati who made history as the first Arab to reach the International Space Station is set to return to Earth on Thursday following an eight-day mission that sparked euphoria in his homeland. ... more 
US Air Force releases unique new call to action for ideasWright-Patterson AFB OH (SPX) Sep 27, 2019 The US Air Force has unveiled AF Explore, a new opportunity call for capability ideas that advance the transformational component of the AF Science and Technology (SciTech) 2030 strategy. With this ... more  
DARPA seeks novel urban swarm capabilities, enhancements to physical testbedsWashington DC (SPX) Sep 30, 2019 Cities present multiple challenges for ground units as they attempt to navigate and search tall buildings amid tight spaces with limited sight lines. DARPA's OFFensive Swarm-Enabled Tactics (OFFSET) ... more |
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Japan's Kounotori Spaceship Attached to StationHouston TX (SPX) Sep 30, 2019 Ground controllers successfully installed the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) Kounotori 8 H-II Transfer Vehicle (HTV-8) to the Earth-facing port of the International Space Station's Harmon ... more 
Musk's SpaceX unveils new Starship for private trips in space, then moonWashington DC (UPI) Sep 29, 2019 SpaceX owner Elon Musk unveiled a new prototype of a spacecraft for private trips to the moon on the 11th anniversary Saturday night of his company's first successful orbital launch of a rocket. ... more 
Fly your experiment to the Space Station with Bioreactor Express ServiceParis (ESA) Sep 27, 2019 ESA is partnering with Kayser Italia to offer the Kubik facility on the International Space Station to commercial customers. The new Bioreactor Express Service allows users to conduct experiments in ... more 
Luca takes leading role for Europe in spaceParis (ESA) Sep 27, 2019 ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano is set to become the third European and first Italian commander of the International Space Station, following an official change of command ceremony on Wednesday 2 Octob ... more  
Naval Strike Missile launched in Indo-Pacific region for first timeWashington (UPI) Oct 2, 2019 The Naval Strike Missile, which can strike an enemy ship 100 nautical miles away, was successfully demonstrated by the USS Gabrielle Giffords, the Navy announced. ... more |
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 Faxon, Major Tool awarded $600M for next-gen area attack warhead 
Rocket Lab to launch dedicated mission for Astro DigitalHuntington Beach CA (SPX) Oct 02, 2019 Rocket Lab, the global leader in dedicated small satellite launch, has announced Astro Digital as the customer for Rocket Lab's ninth Electron mission, and fifth mission of 2019. The dedicated ... more  |
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NASA launches miniature satellite designed by Indian teenNew Delhi (Sputnik) Sep 27, 2019 The miniature satellite was successfully launched from NASA's Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility in the US state of New Mexico early Tuesday and achieved an altitude of 38 km. The US Nationa ... more 
Ariane 6's core engine completes qualification testsParis (ESA) Sep 30, 2019 Ariane 6, Europe's next-generation launch vehicle, has passed another key development milestone. Its Vulcain 2.1 liquid-fuelled engine has now completed its qualification testing, which means combin ... more 
US paratroopers injured after botched night jumpWashington (AFP) Oct 3, 2019 Several US paratroopers were injured in a botched night parachute exercise in Mississippi Wednesday, local media reported. ... more  
US air strike in Somalia killed civilians: AmnestyNairobi (AFP) Oct 1, 2019 Amnesty International on Tuesday accused the United States of killing three civilians in an air strike in Somalia, and failing to investigate claims they were farmers with no ties to Al-Shabaab. ... more 
Turkey downs unidentified drone on Syria border: defence ministryIstanbul (AFP) Sept 29, 2019 Turkey's air force on Sunday downed an unidentified drone on the Syrian border after it breached Turkish air space six times, the defence ministry said. ... more |
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 Oxford UK (SPX) Oct 03, 2019 
Their initial discovery had seemed like a contradiction because most other polymer fibres embrittle in the cold. But after many years of working on the problem, the group of researchers have discovered that silk's cryogenic toughness is based on its nano-scale fibrills.
Sub-microscopic order and hierarchy allows a silk to withstand temperatures of down to -200oC. And possibly even lower, w ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Sep 23, 2019 
DARPA has announced the 10 teams that have qualified for the Championship Event of the Spectrum Collaboration Challenge (SC2) - a three-year contest to unlock the potential of the radio frequency (RF) spectrum using artificial intelligence (AI). The teams will head to Mobile World Congress Los Angeles on October 23, 2019, where their radio designs will go head to head during a live competition. ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Sep 24, 2019 
China successfully sent two satellites of the BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS) into space from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in Sichuan Province at 5:10 a.m. Monday.
Launched on a Long March-3B carrier rocket, the two satellites entered orbit. They are the 47th and 48th satellites of the BDS satellite family.
The new satellites and the carrier rocket were developed by t ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Oct 1, 2019 
Pratt & Whitney has been awarded more than $2 billion in a contract modification to a previously awarded contract for F-35 strike fighter jet propulsion system.
The $2.1B contract, announced Monday by the Department of Defense, calls for the production and delivery of F135 propulsion systems for the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II fighter jet, including 112 F135-PW-100s for the Ai ... more |
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 Yokohama, Japan (SPX) Sep 24, 2019 
Data centers are processing data and dispensing the results at astonishing rates and such robust systems require a significant amount of energy - so much energy, in fact, that information communication technology is projected to account for 20% of total energy consumption in the United States by 2020.
To answer this demand, a team of researchers from Japan and the United States have develo ... more |
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 Boulder CO (SPX) Sep 30, 2019 
Ball Aerospace delivered the Operational Land Imager 2 (OLI-2) for Landsat 9, completing development of the instrument on schedule and under budget. Ball will continue to support instrument integration and spacecraft-level testing, working closely with NASA and the Landsat 9 spacecraft provider.
"Ball Aerospace is enabling the sustainability of the nation's land imaging architecture throug ... more |
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 Tripoli (AFP) Oct 3, 2019 
Faraj al-Doukali hastened to unload the dozens of rubbish bags from his van onto a sidewalk dump in Siyahiya, a residential district west of the Libyan capital.
"Each weekend I collect the rubbish from my four brothers at the farm where we live and I look for somewhere to dump it. I have no choice but to leave it here on the footpath," he said.
Across Tripoli, tonnes of waste overflows f ... more |
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 Jiuquan, China (XNA) Sep 02, 2019 
Two satellites for technological experiments were sent into space by a Kuaizhou-1A, or KZ-1A, carrier rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China on Saturday.
The rocket blasted off at 7:41 a.m. and sent the two satellites into their planned orbit.
Kuaizhou-1A, meaning speedy vessel, is a low-cost solid-fuel carrier rocket with high reliability and a short prep ... more |
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 Moscow (Sputnik) Sep 17, 2019 
Limited production of the sophisticated new air defence system, most of whose characteristics remain under wraps, was said to have begun earlier this year, but the system has not yet concluded military testing.
Russia plans to begin mass production of the S-500 air defence system in the second half of 2020, Sergei Chemezov, CEO of Russian defence industry giant Rostec, has announced.
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 Washington (UPI) Oct 2, 2019 
The Naval Strike Missile, which can strike an enemy ship 100 nautical miles away, was successfully demonstrated by the USS Gabrielle Giffords, the Navy announced.
The test of the weapon, which as been deployed aboard the Giffords, aboard the Independence-variant littoral combat ship came Tuesday during the biennial Pacific Griffin exercise near Guam. This year's exercise was conducted b ... more |
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 Bath UK (SPX) Sep 23, 2019 
A new nanomaterial developed by scientists at the University of Bath could solve a conundrum faced by scientists probing some of the most promising types of future pharmaceuticals.
Scientists who study the nanoscale - with molecules and materials 10,000 smaller than a pinhead - need to be able to test the way that some molecules twist, known as their chirality, because mirror image molecul ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 26, 2019 
Mini robots that can roll, fly, float and swim, then morph into a single machine? Together they form Shapeshifter, a developing concept for a transformational vehicle to explore treacherous, distant worlds.
In a dusty robotics yard at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, the Shapeshifter team is testing a 3D-printed prototype of this unusual explorer. A contraption tha ... more |
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 Istanbul (AFP) Sept 29, 2019 
Turkey's air force on Sunday downed an unidentified drone on the Syrian border after it breached Turkish air space six times, the defence ministry said.
"An unmanned aerial vehicle which violated our air space six times (on Saturday)... was downed by two of our F-16s which took off from Incirlik" air base in southern Turkey, the defence ministry said, sharing pictures of the downed drone. ... more |
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